Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains

by Helen Stauffer

As a historian and as a novelist Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) stands in the front rank of western writers: in the words of John K. Hutchens, "no one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the old West." This first full-length biography is particularly concerned to show the relationship between Sandoz's life and experiences and her writing.

Drawing heavily on materials in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803241216
• ISBN13: 9780803241213
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.